Banks/Money Managment

[jeeeep]

So why not completely privatize education? Let individual parents buy the K-12 education they can afford. If they can’t afford anything or can only afford K-3, who cares? If there is one thing society could use more of, it’s window lickers. Plus, there is no way it would make class disparity worse.

from my view, there are plenty of window lickers so would there really be any change? those that want to succeed will.

 

[Sharkey]

from my view, there are plenty of window lickers so would there really be any change? those that want to succeed will.

Can’t control to whom you are born and I haven’t met many 6-18 year olds trying to be like Alex P. Keaton.

I’d be surprised if 80% of the kid population would learn how to read and do basic math if it wasn’t for the public school system (even as broken as it is in some states). Most parents sure as shit aren’t going to spend the time to teach those kids. Hell, most parents don’t even want to teach non-academic basic life skills like being a decent human being or having a work ethic.

 

[jeeeep]

Can’t control to whom you are born and I haven’t met many 6-18 year olds trying to be like Alex P. Keaton.

I’d be surprised if 80% of the kid population would learn how to read and do basic math if it wasn’t for the public school system (even as broken as it is in some states). Most parents sure as shit aren’t going to spend the time to teach those kids. Hell, most parents don’t even want to teach non-academic basic life skills like being a decent human being or having a work ethic.

seems it's already and issue:

Many students aren’t taught the building blocks of math, research suggests

 

[Sharkey]

seems it's already and issue:

Many students aren’t taught the building blocks of math, research suggests

100%.

The first question is do you think those statistics would be better or worse if the only property taxes used to fund public education were those received from landowners with school aged children?

The second question is do you believe you personally receive any benefit from having school aged kids receive some level of public education, even though you don’t have school aged kids?

 

[jeeeep]

100%.

The first question is do you think those statistics would be better or worse if the only property taxes used to fund public education were those received from landowners with school aged children?

The second question is do you believe you personally receive any benefit from having school aged kids receive some level of public education, even though you don’t have school aged kids?

1. Better, IMO it would create a better incentive for parents to take a part in their "investment" to make sure they get the most out of the system.
I would hope that it also makes parents take an interest in exactly how their tax dollars are being used within the system.

2. No, I don't believe I personally receive any benefit. Can't tell you how many times I've had to school one of those school aged kids in counting back change (which is why I believe registers today are picture coded and lets them know exactly what change should be given, have you seen some of the latest register software?)
I've tried to hire them for simple summer yard work and I may as well have done it myself because they lack critical thinking skills, how hard is it to mow a yard? (apparently harder than I thought)

I find many of them too lazy to be of any use as they'd rather be posting social media hoping to be the next "star"

 

[Ddays]

Local/Property taxes, painful as they are, are the ones that I dont mind paying because it does go towards the local school and infrastructure. It's a shitty system but I want services and education.

Funny how perspectives change as we age. My parents moved us to our current area 45 years ago because of the new school system that was built in a rural area that we still live in. And then bitched incessantly when they wanted to do upgrade it 40 years later. God forbid. I can't bitch about it because I'm a product of it.

Now Fed taxes on the other hand.........

 

[NPC 6060⁸42]

So why not completely privatize education? Let individual parents buy the K-12 education they can afford. If they can’t afford anything or can only afford K-3, who cares? If there is one thing society could use more of, it’s window lickers. Plus, there is no way it would make class disparity worse.

You’d be surprised how much I agree with this idea.